Integrating Corporate Social Responsability Programs into the Ethical Dimension of the Organization

The purpose of this paper is to indicate the need to integrate corporate social responsibility programs into the global ethical vision of organizations. Such an approach requires the definition of the corporation in relation to the moral values it assumes and the ways in which moral values occur within the organization. On this foundation, the authors examined the various implications that moral values have on the initiation and conduct of corporate social responsibility programs.corporate social responsibility, business ethics, organizational behavior, organizational theory.

Between project efficiency and stakeholders’ interests: project intake decisions in nonprofit organizations

Nonprofit organizations implementing their strategies through multi-project environments are perennially confronted with the difficulties embedded into their institutional design. Assessing the social results is intrinsically dependent on the missional depiction of social change and it is to be performed in settings of project networks influenced by multiple stakeholder interests. In order to balance the project efficiency, in terms of the triple constraint of scope-time-budget, and the need for stakeholder satisfaction, when it comes to project intake decisions a procedural decision making approach is required. The aim of this paper consist in proposing a decision making process and the adjacent procedures set for project intake decisions guided by various criteria. This process takes into account: mapping the stakeholder’s importance and influence on strategy casting, assessing the social outcome of projects and project efficiency requirements

In Search of Sustainable Social Impact: A System Dynamics Approach to Managing Nonprofit Organizations Operating in Multi-Project Contexts

Nonprofit organizations are typically seen as institutional settings that contribute to finding grassroots solutions to various social problems. But in their own turn, these entities exhibit by design manyfold frailties given by factors such as - precarious funding sustainability, balancing the multiple and, at times, divergent interests of stakeholders, finding a suitable manner to assess managerial performance. The aim of this paper consist in employing a system dynamics approach to modelling the managerial behaviour of nonprofit entities delivering their output through project networks. The system dynamics concepts of causal loops, stocks and flows dependencies are used to depict the complex relationships between projects, funding sources and social outcomes. This approach leads to identifying the systemic threatening to nonprofit sustainability and the dynamic nature of managerial decisions in the context of the interactions between nonprofit organizations, their beneficiaries and funding agencies

THE PRAGMATIC ROLE OF A POSTMODERN EPISTEMOLOGY FOR ETHICAL VALUES MANAGEMENT

The aim of this article is to identify the adequacy of the postmodern view of knowledge and values to produce tools of ethics management in economic organizations. It is questioned the possibility to conceive business ethics as a postmodern phenomenon. And, keeping this in mind, postmodernism and objectivism are comparatively analysed as complementary manners to epistemologically sustain ethics management. Narrative ethics is eventually considered an important postmodern contribution for obtaining relevant instruments of business ethics, but the stability of this construction is not in agreement with the postmodern spirit.postmodernism, business ethics, objectivism, organizational studies

The Emergence of Industrial Tourism in Post-Mining Closure Areas – Project Management Models and Local Practices

Reducing industrial activities has led to the need for identifying and implementing strategies aimed at an economic usage of affected areas pointing to the past industrial age. There are many successful examples globally of using industrial heritage in industrial tourism. In Romania, the achievements are not so advanced, although over time there have been several initiatives to preserve culture, knowledge, tools, equipment, customs, and clothing related to the exploitation of mineral resources. The aim of this paper is to propose a project management model in addressing the needs of communities facing post-mining closure contexts and to examine how an integrated managerial outlook for various stakeholders involved in local tourism portfolios might reach solutions for the ongoing long-term social consequences of mine closures. The paper provides as a case study the transformation of the industrial patrimony of the former Petrila Mining Assembly, which serves as a lesson of industrial archeology, being one of the last ensembles in the area that still retains part of each stage of its evolution. The involvement and contributions of local non-profit organizations, municipalities and local businesses in the emerging of industrial tourism in Petrila are analysed through the proposed managerial model